How does MOUNTS work? UNAM’s artificial intelligence to monitor the world’s volcanoes

2024-04-11 03:17:28

Know how MOUNTS works? We talk to you about the artificial intelligence from UNAM to monitor the volcanoes of the world.

With the aim of transforming the observation of volcanic activity, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) developed a new tool.

This is MOUNTS, a project developed by the researcher Sébastien Valade from the Institute of Geophysics of the UNAM.

Below, we give you more details about MOUNTS artificial intelligence so you know how it works and what it is for.

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What is MOUNTS, UNAM’s artificial intelligence to monitor the world’s volcanoes?

MOUNTS (Monitoring Unrest from Space) es una web platform which enables observe volcano data most active in the world in real time.

MOUNTS can currently be consulted at: http://www.mounts-project.com/home.

OK Sébastien Valadefrom the UNAM Institute of Geophysics, with this technology that uses artificial intelligence, more than 80 volcanoes can be observed at the same time.

With this artificial intelligence tool, volcanic monitoring processes are better expected, as well as the prediction of colossi across the planet.

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This is how MOUNTS works, UNAM’s artificial intelligence to monitor volcanoes around the world

MOUNTSthe artificial intelligence from UNAM To monitor volcanoes around the world, it works as follows.

Use the free data provided by satellites Sentinelfrom European Space Agency.

In this regard, Sébastien Valade details the following:

“When the MOUNTS project was born, a family of new Earth observation satellites called Sentinel was being developed, which has a wide variety of sensors on board, allowing several key parameters to be monitored with high resolution. Also, all the data is free, so that was a revolution to observe these phenomena.”

Sébastien Valade, MOUNTS developer

It should be noted that Valade uses data from the Sentinel satellites, taking advantage of the different information they provide.

Sentinel 1 uses data with which soil deformation is measured.

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In the case of Sentinel 2, this tool has sensors that operate in the visible and invisible bands of the electromagnetic spectrum to take photos and determine thermal radiation.

For its part, Sentinel 5P works with ultraviolet bands to improve sulfur dioxide in volcanoes.

The interesting thing about MOUNTS, explains UNAM, is that it organizes and systematizes the data in such a way that relationships can be made to predict volcanic activity.

Now, regarding its application in Mexico, MOUNTS monitors the Colima volcano and also the Popocatépetl volcano.

Despite the great advantages that UNAM’s artificial intelligence has, its developers hope to improve the platform.

The intention is to make it accessible to the general public, in addition to the fact that in the future it is intended to use data from the Sentinel 3 satellite that would reveal information about volcanic ash.

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With information from UNAM.

2024-04-11 03:17:28